The barbecue was over. It had been a good one; drinks, charcoaled T-bones, rare, a green salad and Meg's special dressing. 1984, Stephen King, The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet:
From the ⊤ shape produced by the vehicles involved in such a collision, with allusion to T-bone ¹.
Meanings
(Canada, US, of a motor vehicle, slang, transitive) To collide perpendicularly with the side of another vehicle.
They get to an intersection when suddenly the limo gets T-boned and everything gets thrown around all over the car. 2007, Paul Myers, It Ain’t Easy: Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues, Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 77, →ISBN:
Its hood had already been accordioned from T-boning somebody else[.] 1993, Car and Driver, volume 39, Hachette Magazines, Inc., page 25:
Holmes, who was a lap ahead and in 6th spot, couldn’t avoid T-boning him and in the coming together they were both out. 1984, R and T, volume 35, CBS Publications, page 187: